Category: clean eating

Let’s talk about Greek yogurt for moment. I’m sure you’ve heard that Greek yogurt is better for you. I hear it all the time. John Stamos can’t stop eating it! It has more protein and less carbs than regular yogurt. It has a tangier taste then regular yogurt. But my favorite part about Greek yogurt is not just eating as yogurt! Here are 2 ways I use Greek yogurt.

In place of sour cream. The first time I had plain Greek yogurt I could have sworn it was sour cream. I’m not a huge fan of eating it plain. I prefer it in a smoothie or mixed with some maple syrup, nuts or strawberries. But after that first time trying it plain, I decided to try it in place of sour cream. It was so good! I eat it on top of enchiladas, potato soup, you name it! I also use it in my cupcakes….shhhhh! It’s my secret ingredient. So now the question comes if Greek yogurt is better than sour cream. I compared it to Daisy sour cream and it’s actually better for you! I’m sure that me just saying that means nothing to you though so I’ll break it down. At first glance, Daisy looks better. Especially when you look at the calories! Whoa! But Daisy is only a 2 TBSP serving whereas the Greek yogurt in using is a cup. So here comes a little math for you! I know it’s thrilling. There at 16 TBSP in cup. Multiply each nutritional fact by 8 and that will give you a fair comparison of both. 480 calories in sour cream vs 310 in Greek yogurt, 40 grams of fat in SC vs 22 in GY and 8 Grams of sugar in SC vs 5 grams in GY. There are more you can look at but those stuck out to me.

So have we cut out sour cream completely? No, not at all! It has it time and place-like on a burrito bowl at Chipotle! Greek yogurt is just a little bit better for you. The ingredients on this specific kind of sour cream is only cream so it falls within our eating standards. Just not something we eat all the time.

In a pinch cream of chicken soup. I like to make cream of chicken on the stove starting with a roux. It’s so yummy and really pretty easy. Except when you need dinner NOW, have a screaming child on your hip that you don’t want near the stove or don’t have a clean pot. This little tip is for you then! All I do is take 3/4 cup of yogurt and start whisking in chicken broth until it’s the consistency I want. Add a little salt, pepper and garlic (or whatever) and voila! You’ve just made in a pinch cream or chicken. And it’s still good for you without resorting to the can junk! I use this at least once a week and it hasn’t failed my yet! The only thing I haven’t done is used it in a crock pot recipe. Soooo make at your own risk. So there you have it! 2 ways, besides smoothies and regular yogurt, that you can use Greek yogurt. I’m sure there are other things you can do with it but these are my go to ideas.

both tips are using PLAIN Greek yogurt. Make sure it’s plain. I’m pretty sure vanilla yogurt on top of your potato soup would be awful.

One of the biggest hesitations to eating organic, clean foods is the price. There is this stigma that organic food is expensive. After all, you have likely seen this picture that has gone around the internet:

Yeah, that’s pretty bad. But, here is the good news: It doesn’t have to be that way. Buying organic food is not just for the rich, elite (evidenced by the fact that we buy organic!) it is for normal people too! Granted, sometimes we cannot afford organic vegetables and so we get the normal vegetables instead, but we do a good job at getting mostly organic foods. Here are a few things that have helped us with buying clean, organic foods.

1.Looking at the finances

How many times do you go out to eat in a week? Statistics say that the average American family eats out four times a week! First off, that’s ridiculous. It is no wonder that Americans struggle with obesity and diabetes! But consider how much you spend eating out. Most of the time, you will find that you will spend less money buying organic groceries and making your own meals than eating out (unless, of course, you are eating from the Dollar Menu at McDonalds). Get a piece of paper out and do the math, you will be surprised.
Let me give you a glimpse into our finances. We try to spend under $125 a week in groceries. That is all of our food in one week. Sometimes we go over, but most of the time we stick in that range. I just cited that the average American family eats out 4 times a week. My family has 4 people in it. Suppose my family ate at the cheapest of fast food places 4 times a week, McDonalds. Suppose my wife and I both got a Big Mac (no fries and no drink, just the burger), and we got my 2 children a Happy Meal to share. That would end up being about 11.50 a meal, which would end up being 46 dollars a week! That is almost half of my grocery budget on only 4 meals, with no fries or drink, at the cheapest place around. The point is made, if you can afford to go to McDonalds, then you can afford to do organic grocery shopping.

2.Using savings apps

Here is a fun one. I started using savings apps on my phone. For most of them, all you have to do is scan the receipt that you got when shopping and you will earn money. Here are a few apps that have been very helpful, and lucrative, for me.
Ibotta- Ibotta has been the best app. I have earned a lot of money from this app (45 bucks in 3 months). It is a rebate app, so there are certain items that you buy and they give you money back, sometimes 25 cents, sometimes a dollar. The awesome thing is that Ibotta has a lot of clean options for food. There are rebates for vegetables, any brands of milk, butter, etc, and plenty of organic brands (Larabar, truRoots, Sprout, etc.) Another awesome part is that you get 10 dollars just for signing up. Follow this link to sign up!
Receipt Hog- I enjoy Receipt Hog the most of all the apps I have. It is not a rebate app, all you do is take a picture of your receipt. It rewards you based on how much you spend. I think I like Receipt Hog so much because it is fun. The more points you earn the fatter your pig gets, there are different ways to earn points. It is a quirky app, but it is fun. It may not earn as much as Ibotta, but with patience it pays off.
Walmart Savings Catcher- This one is one that I only discovered recently. Whenever you shop at Walmart all you have to do is take a picture of your receipt on this app. Walmart will look at your receipt and price match all locations in your area. I live in a very small town, so my savings are limited, I’ve had the app for a month and have earned 3 dollars. But for a person who lives in a larger town…Boy, oh, boy, the sky is the limit!
Receipt Pal- Receipt Pal is similar to Receipt Hog with one major difference, it does not reward you based on how much you spend, it rewards you on the amount of receipts you log. So you receive 100 points for every 4 receipts you put in. A 1 dollar Amazon gift card is 400 points. It is simple, and I am good at simple!
Yaarlo- Yaarlo rewards you on how much you spend. But instead of using a “point” system, it rewards you a percentage of how much you spend. Bear in mind, the percentage is only .25% for grocery stores. But over time it will add up.

Keep in mind that you will not “get rich quick”. Using these apps is a practice in tedium. You will earn a little bit at a time but earning a little is better than earning nothing at all. Basically, if you only earn 25 cents on your grocery trip with Ibotta or another app, do not get discouraged and say, “Oh well, it’s only 25 cents!” No, a penny saved is a penny earned. Keep grinding and keep earning.3.Shopping at Walmart

People look at Walmart as the “poor man’s shopping”. Of course, we have all seen the “people of Walmart” pictures. Some people claim they would never be caught dead in a Walmart. It is because of this idea that some think that Walmart may not have organic options, only the cheap, chemical laced options of food. Set that idea aside! Walmart is really branching out in the organic department, bringing in many different brands to their shelves including their own Great Value Organic brand which, in normal Walmart style, is pretty affordable. You would also be shocked at the price of organic produce at Walmart. Keep your eyes open and you can get good deals, there are times when organic carrots are cheaper than regular carrots, or even onions, and every once in a while apples. Why would you not go organic when it is cheaper than regular? Of course, sometimes the organic items are a little too expensive for us, so we make do with regular items, but we do the best we can.

Walmart is not the only affordable place to get organic food. Aldi is another store that offers affordable options, the only reason we do not go to Aldi is because we do not have one nearby 😦 . Basically, the point is this, you do not have to go to Whole Foods, where the food is exuberantly overpriced, and grocery shop there. There are options for normal people like you and me.

4. Keeping a Budget
This really should go without saying, and it is important for life, in general, not just when it comes to eating clean. Know what you are going to spend on a weekly or monthly basis and then do not go over that amount. Figure out what your family needs to spend on food and don’t go over it. Too many times people go grocery shopping and just grab things off the shelves because it looks good to them, only to be dismayed when they are shown how much they have to pay. Watch your money. We use an app called EveryDollar to keep track of our spending, I highly recommend it.

Those are the things we do that allow us to shop organic. What about you? What methods do you use or ideas do you have to make grocery shopping more affordable?

Easter is a great time of year. It is an incredibly refreshing time of year as we celebrate the resurrection of Christ and new life. There is a dark underbelly to this wonderful time of year though…. jelly beans. Before we began our lifestyle of clean eating, jelly beans were my vice. So were chocolate Easter bunnies, Cadberry eggs, Reese pieces, and pretty much any candy around the Easter season… except for Peeps, Peeps are nasty. If you set a pack of jelly beans in front of me, I would devour them really quickly.
But here is the big problem. Candy is often extremely unhealthy. With all of the “sugar” (high fructose corn syrup), food dyes, and artificial flavors. It is not good for me to eat candy, and truthfully it is not good for me to give that candy to my children. We had to figure out a way to make Easter exciting for our children without giving them candy. This really isn’t a big problem for us because our children rarely eat candy! A few Hershey kisses and a few jelly beans were pretty much the extent of their candy consumption before we made the switch to clean eating.
This year, we made an Easter basket for our children and I think that they are going to love it! I am going to allow you to peak into our Easter basket so that you can get some ideas for your own Easter.

Bubbles

A bucket and shovel

A kite

A book

Chalk

Chalkboard mat

Frisbee

Stickers

Glow-sticks

Play dough

Target has a great dollar section where I purchased some awesome Easter find. I even got some carrot and bunny hair clips! For my daughter of course….even though I could so pull them off. The stickers even have eggs that are scratch off, because who doesn’t like to do that?! Walmart had the kites, bucket, Frisbee, eggs and bubbles.

I hope that gives you a few ideas. By the way, our family may not do candy, but we still do eat something fun. This year we are going to bake a delicious dessert for the kids (we may eat a little bit ourselves). You can eat great food without sacrificing your health, and that is the whole point. Have a great (and clean) Easter!

How many of you love eating veggie? Chances are, not many of you said yes to that question. The truth is, many people think vegetables are gross! Most children think vegetables are gross and most adults think they are gross! In the last few years I have grown to truly love eating vegetables. In fact, it is a rare dinner that vegetables are not a central, important part of the dish. The reason is because I believe that in most cases, vegetables are not meant to eat raw, they are meant to be incorporated with other things to enhance flavor. I always used to see eating vegetables as if you have to eat raw broccoli dipped in ranch, and then when I heard that ranch wasn’t necessarily good for you, I gave up on it altogether! Who wants to eat raw broccoli? Not I! A question that seems to be on parent’s minds is, “How do I get my kid (or even my spouse!) to eat their veggies?” To answer that question, I put together a list of a few veggies that you can put in pretty much anything.Spinach

Let’s be honest about spinach. When you were a kid and watched Popeye eating his spinach and it making him strong, they really didn’t make spinach look very appetizing. The spinach that Popeye ate looked like sludge! Nobody wants to eat that. Would you believe that for years I believed that is what spinach was?! I wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer… Spinach (for those of you who still do not know) is a leaf, it is a dark green color. By the way, when it comes to leafy greens, the greener the better. A lot of people use iceberg lettuce for their salads, but really they should use spinach or some other dark green leaf. There are a ton of nutrients packed into spinach (Vitamin A, B2, B6, C, E, K, calcium, potassium, fiber, etc). But a great thing about spinach is that it is practically tasteless, it will take on the taste of whatever you pair it with. Here is what I enjoy doing with spinach: I blend up a cup of spinach until it is very fine and then incorporate it into my soups. It adds practically no calories, but tons of nutrients. When you put blended spinach in soup it makes it look like a seasoning instead of a veggie, your kids will not be able to tell a difference. I also will take a cup of spinach and put it into my smoothies that I drink as a snack. The smoothie will turn a green color, but would you believe that you really cannot taste the difference!

Zucchini

Ok, I LOVE zucchini! I started eating zucchini about 4 years ago and I have been loving it since! In fact, I might just go ahead and say that it is my favorite vegetable. Do people normally have favorite vegetables or am I just weird? I digress. My wife and I incorporate zucchini into a lot of meals. My favorite meal (you will probably get the recipe for this pretty soon) is mostly zucchini. Zucchini, again, is mostly tasteless and requires seasonings to enhance the flavor. So really, it serves as a blank slate to test out different types of flavor. We also make noodles out of zucchini, and they are delicious. Sometimes I will even dice one up and add it into some tomato sauce whenever we have spaghetti. Zucchini chips and zucchini cakes are a real winner in our family. Also, did you know that chocolate and zucchini make a very good pairing?! Next time you make chocolate cupcakes, add a little bit of grated zucchini, it will make your cupcakes more moist, but will not change the flavor. What in the world! How can a vegetable taste so good in so many different ways?!? Try it, you will never, ever regret it.

Broccoli

Can I be honest with you, I dislike broccoli almost as much as I love zucchini. But broccoli is so good for you! It is rich in many vitamins and other nutrients such as Vitamin D, A, and K (basically the whole alphabet!) also magnesium, zinc, calcium, iron and a bunch of others that I do not know the name of or how to pronounce. Here is a way that we incorporate broccoli into our meals: if you are eating a casserole, blend up 8 ounces of broccoli until it is very fine and put the broccoli into the casserole before stirring. I promise you will barely (if at all) be able to taste the difference. My wife’s favorite meal has 8 ounces of broccoli in it, we eat this dish every week, and it tastes the same as it would without broccoli, but it is much more nutritious.

Avocado

I remember my first encounter with avocado. When I was in college, I worked for a sandwich shop that was not very clean and did not have very good customer service. We had several avocado’s lined up on top of the sandwich making station in order to entice people to put some on their sandwich. I tried a sandwich one day and put some of that avocado on it. Little did I know (since I had never had an avocado before) that it was not ripe. If you do not know, unripened avocado’s are not very tasty, they are hard and are very difficult to eat. My first experience with avocado was horrible. Several years later I found myself working at Panera Bread. They require at Panera Bread for each person on the team to try every food on the menu. One day, I had to eat the Turkey Avocado BLT (this may not be the healthiest thing to say, but avocado and bacon work VERY well together) and I was worried. “I hate avocado!” I told myself. But once I took a bite, I fell instantly in love. Ripe avocado is the best thing in the world (hyperbole much!) Ever since that day, I have consumed ungodly amounts of avocado, be it in the form of guacamole, incorporated in meals, or just sprinkling some salt and pepper on it and eating it as is. Sadly, some people do not have the same love for avocados as I do, and this is sad because avocados are rich in “good” fat (more on that in a different post), fiber, vitamin C, Potassium, and others. How can you get avocado into a meal? Well first, let me be honest about avocado’s tastiest offspring, guacamole. Do you know why most people say they do not like guacamole? Because they have never tried it! They look at it and think, “Ew! It’s green and chunky!” And never try it. Do yourself a flavor (see what I did there!) and try it before passing judgment on it. Chances are, you will like it. But if you do try it and don’t like it, then blend some avocado into a smoothie, it will go well in a fruit or a chocolate smoothie, and, unlike spinach, it will not greatly effect the color of your smoothie. Also, consider just putting small slithers of avocado on top of tacos, enchiladas, and inside burritos. The avocado will add a burst of creaminess, but will not greatly effect the taste. Go ahead and give it a try, and when I am proven right and you run to the grocery store to buy ALL THE AVOCADOS, let me know so I can gloat in the fact that I was right (for once).

Carrots

Now is honesty time: Nobody likes carrots. I used to watch people eat their little “baby carrots” with Ranch Dressing and see the misery on their faces get worse and worse with every bite. Nobody enjoys carrots, and if someone says that they do, then they are liars and should not be trusted…Author’s note: I would like to make an apology to all of those people who actually do like eating carrots, including my wife. You are not liars, you can be trusted, this was an attempt at humor on my part, I have been told in the past that I am not very funny, and this may be one of those instances where I failed at joking.
But the truth is that, again, carrots are very good for you. What can you do with carrots? Our family puts carrots in just about every meal, would you believe that carrots may be our second most used veggie! It is true. We add carrots to casseroles and to soups. The carrots greatly enhances the flavor of our chicken noodle soup in particular. A word of warning though, when it comes to carrots, I like mine to be very soft in a dish. When I eat my chicken noodle soup I do not want to be chomping on a carrot. So in soups, be sure to put the chopped carrots in very quickly so that they have plenty of time to soften up in the soup (normally it takes about 45 minutes for our soup to be finished). In a casserole, I will sauté my onions and carrots in a separate skillet and put a lot of water into the skillet until the veggies are almost completely submerged, stirring it periodically. Often once the water has mostly evaporated from the skillet the carrots and onions have an incredible tenderness to them and go very well into a casserole. You can also make nice, little snacks with carrots: carrots fries and carrot chips. Or, you know, you could always just chomp on a carrot raw and do your best imitation of Bugs Bunny.

As you can see, there are plenty of creative things that you can do with vegetables. I used to hate vegetables, but I have learned that you can do great things with them. You don’t have to drink carrot juice from a food processor or eat a raw stalk of broccoli, you can do things to those veggies to make them enjoyable. How about you? What ways are you able to incorporate veggies into your meal?

What if I told you that our most important weight loss tool costs under $10? Would you believe me? Well you should! We grab for this tool everyday and use it almost every meal. What is it you ask?

A kitchen scale. That’s right, a little scale. Portion size is a huge issue in the US, and our family is able to combat that problem with a simple kitchen scale. There are plenty of people who eat good food, but they eat too much of it, and you know how the saying goes, “Too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing.” You may have good intentions by snacking on some almonds but that 1 ounce serving you guessed at could easily be 4 ounces! That 4 ounces of almonds that you just ate are roughly 640 calories! Wow! You just blew a whole meal’s worth of calories on what you thought was a light snack. Controlling the amount of food we eat is what keeps us on track with losing weight. We measure or weigh everything we eat.

If you have a smartphone, a great way to keep track of this is with an app called My Fitness Pal. It requires you to log in everything that you eat throughout the day. Just by using our kitchen scale, my fitness pal and clean eating, together we have lost over 80 pounds! When we track what we eat we are able to enjoy 3 meals and 3 snacks a day. No skipping meals or meal replacement drinks, ever! We are all about eating real foods. While we still have some more weight to lose, we continue to follow our routine and hope in a few months we will be at our final goal. We have seen great results so far! It amazed us that by simply being aware of our portion sizes we started losing pounds! So next time you throw a handful of cheese into your meal weigh it out first; you will be happy when you do!

Somethings to consider

1 oz of almonds is 160 calories

1 oz of cheddar cheese is 110 calories

1 oz of whole wheat pretzels is 110 calories

1 oz of raisins is 85 calories

1 oz of banana chips is 147 calories

These are great, healthy snacks but only when eaten in moderation! Don’t eat all your calories in just a few snacks.

Do any of you have picky toddlers? Raise your hand! In our case, we can raise both of our hands! Some of us (toddler and adults included) can be very picky about our bread. I used to tell my wife, “You can get any bread you want as long as it doesn’t have seeds or tastes too grainy!” So when we first started looking into changing our eating habits one of the first and obvious changes was in our bread. We have all gotten accustomed to white bread, and some refuse to eat wheat bread of any kind. I know that some of us have children who are picky and will not eat bread unless it is white. When we first started making our own bread, we wanted to make it so that it was an “in-between” bread; meaning that it can serve as a bridge to getting into eating whole wheat bread. Your kid will eat it, because it is whiter than normal wheat bread, but they will also get the health benefits because it has whole wheat. Plus, it is easy to make, it is delicious, and it is cheaper than buying bread at the grocery store.

All right! Now it my turn (Megan). Time to break out the aprons and get to work . First we have the line up of our ingredients. Water, milk, honey or syrup, butter, whole wheat flour, bread flour, salt and yeast. I love King Arthur flours (if you can’t already tell!). Try to use organic where you can. If you are using honey (my favorite), I recommend a local honey. If you choose to use syrup, make sure it is real maple syrup! You’d be surprised what is really in so many bottles of so-called syrup. Can anyone guess?? High fructose corn syrup and sugar. yup. So make sure to read the labels of all your ingredients. Okay, moving on!

I take all of my wonderful ingredients and put them into my bread machine in the order I have listed. If you don’t have a bread machine, well get one! I went grocery shopping today while my bread was in the machine. See how much free time it gave me?! Okay, you don’t have to get one but its so nice to have one! This dough can be made by hand or with a mixer that has a dough attachment. Just takes a little more elbow grease!

Once everthing is in the bread machine I turn on the dough setting and let it do its thing. It takes 1 hr and 20 minutes to mix it all up and let it rise. I check the dough during the first 10 minutes of starting, to see if it is pulling away nicely from the sides of the machine. If it is too sticky, I will add flour one Tablespoon at a time.

Now it time to roll the dough on a floured surface! Get out your handy dandy rolling pin and get to work. I roll mine into a rectangle….errrr, well close enough. The kids needed something so I gave up once it looked acceptable. Roll it up, pinch the seam closed and toss in your pan with the ends tucked under. Cover with a lightweight towel and let rise for no more than an hour. Sometimes I take the towel off at 30 minutes and let it rise 10 more while the oven heats up (If I remember too, HA!) 40 minutes is perfect for me. Don’t let it rise to long! I repeat, don’t let it rise to long. For a month I could not figure out why, when I baked my bread, there was a giant crater in the middle. I was letting it rise way to long. So learn from my mistake. You’re welcome.

All that’s left is the baking. You want it to be a nice, golden color. Be warned, the smell is amazing and will make you want to eat every carb in the house. Bake at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

Take it out of the bread pan and devour the whole thing let cool for 20 minutes. My family will just eat plain, warm bread. It is even better with butter and a sprinkle of salt. Enjoy!

This bread also comes with the official toddler seal of approval. If a loaf of bread is out then a toddler is begging for some!

Place all ingredients in bread machine in the order they are listed and turn on the dough setting. Once dough ball is formed it should pull away from sides easily. If too sticky, add 1-2 Tbsp of flour.

When risen, move to a floured surface and roll into a rectangle. The short side shouldn’t be wider than your pan. Roll up and pinch the seam to seal.

Place in a greased bread pan, cover with a light towel and let rise 30 minutes to 1 hour. Bread should rise about an inch over the edge of pan. Don’t let it over rise or go past an hour. Over rising can make your bread sink in while it is baking

Bake at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes. It should be a nice golden brown color.

Side Note: I have searched the internet to find where I got this recipe from, but I cannot seem to find it. If this is your recipe, thank you for giving us such wonderful bread and please let us know so that we can add a link to your page and give you credit.

Our world has convinced itself that faster is always better. We live in a fast paced society. We have strict deadlines at work, our television shows are quick paced to keep our ever fleeting attention, and our food comes prepackaged so that you can put it in the microwave for a few seconds, or you can pull up at the drive through of a fast food restaurant and order a meal in seconds. Sometimes the people with that notion look at people who eat “clean” food, organic food, non-processed foods with some scorn, they may say to themselves that clean eating or organic eating is just another fad diet that will eventually go away, “Clean eating is not normal and it will die out at some point,” is what some people say. They look at the up and coming restaurants who are switching to non-processed foods with no food dyes and they laugh because of these businesses that are “jumping on the band-wagon” for the sake of attracting customers and making money. I know this, because that is where I was. When my wife got started on clean eating and focusing on organic foods rather than processed foods, I was skeptical. I thought it was just a fad. But after following along just because I wanted to be a good, supportive husband, I found that this is not a fad, it is a lifestyle. Not just any lifestyle, mind you, but a lifestyle that was the normal for hundreds of years. That is what Back to the Bread Box is all about: it is rediscovering the simplicity of eating, exercise, and life. You don’t have to go on crash diets, you don’t have to drink shakes, you don’t have to wear wraps to feel healthy, all you have to do is live as people lived for hundreds of years before McDonalds and prepackaged food came along. It is our goal to help you see that making a meal is not difficult, buying organic produce is not expensive, you can exercise and feel good, and you can make some foods instead of buy them. Back to the Bread Box emphasizes a simpler life, it is not difficult. You CAN do it! Let us help.

Why the Name?

You may be confused with the name Back to the Bread Box. Why would we choose a name like that? The answer is simple. We see the bread box as a symbol of clean eating and a simpler lifestyle. One of the things that you would see as soon as you walk into our kitchen is our big, teal bread box. It always has something delicious in it, whether it is a homemade loaf of bread, homemade cookies or graham crackers, or even homemade cupcakes. It, to us, reminds us of our “made from scratch”, “nothing artificial” lifestyle.

Meet the Team

Megan- Megan is the one that started it all. She is my wife and a stay at home mother of two who saw the way that we were eating and living and decided that it was time to try something better. Since starting her journey of clean eating, she has lost 50 pounds and feels healthier than ever before. On Back to the Bread Box, she will be writing on Weight Loss, Recipes, Pregnancy and Labor, Cloth Diapering,Crocheting, Baby Wearing, and many other things.

James- I am the pastor of a church in Georgia. At first, I was skeptical of my wife’s change in our eating habits, but I followed along to be a good husband. Now, I too, feel happier and healthier. I had gone trough bouts of stress and depression when I was not eating well and I always felt tired, but now I have lost 30 pounds and feel better than ever. I will be writing about Weight Loss, Recipes, Trying to Become a 5k runner, Raising Chickens, and many other things.

We do not claim to be experts on any of these areas that we will be writing on, we are still figuring out things and working at becoming healthier. This is our way to share our experiences and what we have learned with people, in hopes that we can make a difference in your life. Join us as we make our journey Back to the Bread Box: Back to the Basics.